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No. 15: Duet (Jane & Bunthorne)

"So go to him and say to him"

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Jane. So go to him and say to him, with compliment ironical — Bunthorne. Sing "Hey to you — Good-day to you" — And that's what I shall say! Jane. "Your style is much too sanctified — your cut is too canonical" — Bunthorne. Sing "Bah to you — Ha! ha! to you" — And that's what I shall say! Jane. "I was the beau ideal of the morbid young aesthetical — To doubt my inspiration was regarded as heretical — Until you cut me out with your placidity emetical." Bunthorne. Sing "Booh to you — Pooh, pooh to you" — And that's what I shall say! Sing "Booh to you — Pooh, pooh to you" — And that's what I shall say!

Jane (Gillian Knight) and Bunthorne (John Reed) (1961-2)

Bunthorne. I'll tell him that unless he will consent to be more jocular — Jane. Sing "Booh to you — Pooh, pooh to you" — And that's what you should say! Bunthorne. To cut his curly hair, and stick an eyeglass in his ocular — Jane. Sing "Bah to you — Ha! ha! to you" — And that's what you should say! Bunthorne. To stuff his conversation full of quibble and of quiddity, To dine on chops and roly-poly pudding with avidity — He'd better clear away with all convenient rapidity.

John Reed and Gillian Knight (1960s)

Exeunt Bunthorne and Jane together.

Henry Lytton and Bertha Lewis
(1919-20)

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